Catalog
10 Heller
| Issuer | Herzogenburg, Market Town of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Herzogenburg 10 Heller Gutschein Herzogenburg - Rathausplatz |
| Reverse description | Tan paper reverse printed in dark blue letterpress, with a dotted outer border and an inner border of repeating diamond ornaments. The upper register bears the printer's name in Gothic script, and the lower register carries the printer's address. A central text block in Gothic script states the purpose of the voucher — issued to alleviate the shortage of small change in retail transactions, redeemable for the face value shown on the front. |
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Herzogenburg's 10 Heller Notgeld belongs to the vast wave of locally printed emergency small change that flooded Austria between 1920 and 1921, when coin shortages made even the lowest denominations functionally useless in daily trade. Market towns across Lower Austria issued their own scrip rather than wait for Vienna to solve the problem.
Printed by a local press rather than any specialist security printer, these notes were never intended to circulate beyond the immediate municipality — legally and practically. The Buchdruckerei G.m.b.H. was a commercial job printer, not a banknote house.